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testing to see if it comes up right. Bigdogsrule

Can anyone please tell me if there is somewhere i can find a listing of caches located at rest stops on Interstates 70, 76, 80/90? Thanks for any info! Bigdogsrule

I love signature items and collect wooden nickels and cards with geologo on them but not if they say "Thanks for the cache" (because I assume those are meant for the hider). I have my own wooden nickel that I paid quite a bit of money for and which have my interests, first name, and a nice moose on them. I hope people enjoy getting them. Frances (bigdogsrule). And I Love dogs. I'll take a dog coin any day and pass it along. They are family too.

I lost my MML passport today (3-9) at the New WIndsor cache and cannot get back there for days. If anyone finds it please let me know!! I DID get my coin today but am going for all the caches and lost it when I forgot to pick it up off the bench. I am devastated. Thank you Frances (bigdogsrule)

WHen I click on show map on a cache, it won't zoom any more. All of a sudden this afternoon. Was ok this morning and now I can't get any map with caches showing on it unless it is of about a 100 mile radius. Help!

Sorry if this has been covered but can' t find in search so want to know. Where is the oldest surviving cache located and where was the first cache ever placed? Thanks! Bigdogsrule ( Frances)

Just got a t-shirt with a travel bug printed on it. I assume the shirt itself is the bug and if people see it they can log it even though it is not in a cache. THus in a sense I am the cache for the shirt. It came with the usual dog tags, meaning that I could also send out a dog tag bug. So is it "legal" to have a two-for one- bug or should I just keep both pieces of the dog tags, the copy and the original and just use the t-shirt as the bug. Thanks for any thoughts. Bigdogsrule (Frances)

I searched for a thread on this but did not find so apologize in advance if it is there. Am looking to purchase 3 geocoins but cannot find them available anywhere (not to trade as I don't have any to trade: Wildlife Muggles Sneaky Antlers Gone to the Dogs (also want pin if there is one) Fox and Hounds (pin also if there is one) Thanks for any info! bigdogsrule

YES! NO bugs, NO humidity, NO snakes, NO poison ivy...You can get warm from the cold but you can't avoid the above. I love winter caching! But then , I love figure skating and snow and winter Frances

THANK YOU for your helpful and NON negative response! I never meant for a moment to force anyone to listen but simply want a way to use music in a CLUE. For heavens sake I can't believe the negative and UNIMAGINATIVE responses! Thanks for yours again! I had not thought to provide a link. I just need to know if it is legal to provide a link to a site that plays music....will have to figure that one out. The music is crucial to a clue and nothing whatsoever to do with people having an easy listening experience (ugh) while viewing the page. Anyway, if a person doesn't like music (and I mean classical as well as others) then you wouldn't want to do this cache anyway. It seems not to have occured to anyone that maybe somethign interesting was behind the question ..........I can assure you this will be a very amusing and interesting cache but you will probably have to listen to a link. Horrors. You might even hear something like Bach. Sorry to be snotty but I certainly had not expected such negativity and was glad to read somethign helpful ! Bigdogsrule (and harps and flute and piano and ......)

Is it possible to add background music to a cache page on geocaching? Thanks for any info. Frnaces

The lack of imagination bothers me too. I do love neat, especially themed swag (like the hand made cartouches in "Ribbitankhamun") and i pride myself on neat "stuff" in my own caches...so I guess swag matters, but location and cleverness matter more. I don't like micros as a rule with the exception of such interesting hides that they make you smile and have a great time finding but 99% of all the ones I have found are annoying....guard rails etc. Ugh. Bigdogsrule

Thanks for all the very interesting comments and I apologize if I was whining! I drove around for a couple of hours looking for some caches that were of unknown size, and all ended up being micros with zero interest and I was somewhat (!) annoyed. I was seeing the glass as half empty - (something I don't often do). Anyway, I also did not mean to offend. I'm just the sort of cacher who likes the location and the cleverness of the hide first but also the adventure of opening something even if usually nothing to speak of is in it! I mean we as a groupI am sure don't cache to "get stuff". On the other hand, I make a big effort to keep my caches full of neat interesting , even useful sometimes, stuff. I have the enthusiasm of being quite new to this and thus am not yet jaded except about micros.(although apparently one of my bugs just got stolen and the cache it was in defiled) case in point: I just did an extremely difficult puzzle cache called "ribbitankhamun" with a ridiculously funny Egyptian theme including an impossible hierogyphic clue (the owner held my hand so to speak to get me through it and it still took 8 hours to solve even with that help!). The hike to the cache was through ordinary but very nice woods, and the cache itself must have taken days to do - hand painted. Inside were wonderfully cheesy musical instruments on which to play a few toots to "the pharaoh" and the hider had created little cartuoches as swag, along with geobuttons with said pharaoh on them. It is a tour de force and the sort of thing I aim to do with mine. He even had camo material (holey and odd looking) that looked like it came from the army! Nuff said and again I am sorry for whining and for being negative. bigdog in the dog house

THANK YOU! ANd I have added your info page to my favorites! Bigdogsruling once again! Frances

Ok. I confess. In general, I DETEST micros. I think they are IN GENERAL, an excuse for a cache just to increase numbers. I have ZERO interest in "looking for" a cache "hidden" in a guardrail in a totally uninteresting location! I mean WHY do we cache in the first place!!!!? I personally do it for neat locations, imaginative hides, and swag (this last is less important than the others and just a fun addition.). SO why would anyone place a cache on a heavily travelled road with ZERO historical or scenic interest, ZERO imagination, and ZERO swag to boot!!!? I mean , WHY BOTHER??? I mean ..."duh... it isn't a real cache if it is already obvious it is in the darn guardrail.." I am about to place a very "Cute" micro which is FUN IN ITSELF (meaning that it is NOT immediately obvious and an interesting container which I have never seen so far) and ALSO LEADS to a "real" cache and will be fun due to the nature of the micro itself. Otherwise I would never do this. What on earth motivates someone to place a ,to my mind ,stupid cache on a heavily traveled road with no interest .........if not greed for numbers of placed caches. Same thing for people who seek these - WHY??? I despise these things. I only go for them if it is clear that they have been placed to draw attention to something interesting. I just did a "small" (read VERY small, just above a micro) cache at an interesting road marker and it was worth it due to the 180 year old marker and at least a real cache even tho small ) cache - it was indeed almost an excuse for a cache but enough fun to justify the travel time and gas .... Am I an iconoclast or is my view shared? Bigdogsrule (Frances feeling snotty after wasting gas for idiiotic boring micros)

What does PAF mean? I try to access FAQ but when I click on acronyms, it simply goes back to the same index page and does NOT link to any other page. Please can someone simply tell me what this acronym means. Frustration. Bigdogs aren't ruling right now.

I got a few bad ones in the space of a week.............deer tick bite (quick trip to the hospital as it was a Saturday....one antibiotic was all they give when they catch it that soon.....still itches like hell over a month later) Red ring was very dramatic! ANother tick bite on the neck which still itches........ 3 Fractured ribs...........just bending down to look at a cache - waist band caught under ribs........... eek. Frances still in pain 3 weeks after the rib incident. By the way, i thought at the time "Sheesh, here I am alone in the woods and I just did something really really bad to my ribs....can I walk....can I yell..." I was actually very close to civilisation and on a much used trail and could walk easily anyway, but it hurt so much when it happened that I thought i was going to fall over.

I apologize if this has been covered, but I often wonder what it is that makes people think a cache is over the top. Here are my criteria and let me know yours! 1.First and foremost - an interesting location, preferably beautiful or "interesting" for some other reason. 2.VERY close to no. 1 - a terrific hide - not necessarily terribly difficult but not TOO easy - mainly it is the creativity of the hide that I mean. 3.Really fun swag. Not as important yet fun and also it is awful when everythign is damp and uncared for and dirty. One rarely finds all three but I did this weekend. A terrific cache with a view of the NYC (I loathe the city but the skyline as viewed from afar is incredible!), a cute hide under a rock and lots of great swag to boot! What do you think? (The worst are unimaginative hides with icky swag and no locational interest.) Frances basking in the glow of 9 fabulous caches in New Jersey!

Where does one get these maps that appear on some cachers pages that have a US map with the states they have cached in colored in? thanks for any info! Frances

Thanks. I do have a very active local (State actually ) club and have at least one new caching friend. You are right of course and I should have thought of this myself!

I cache alone a lot. I feel pretty insecure on a lonely little used trail a mile from help or hearing of anyone. What do you do = not go? Carry pepper spray? Just wondering if I should not do remote trails alone. Frances

Is there a thread here somewhere about advice and ideas re making puzzle caches? thanks frances

Where can I buy a used GPSr and how do I know it works? I assume some people have ones they sell because although they still work, they want to upgrade. thanks for any info. Frances

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